We learn a lot of words. Beginners work on Gunnemark's Minilex, while those who continue work on various lists of irregular verbs, special vocabulary, etc.
We are faced with the task of mastering a sufficiently large amount of words in 7 days, and an even more important task is to find the most effective way to memorize words for each of the participants.
Step 1.
First you need to figure out exactly how you best perceive information. There is a small but very important checklist for this. If you are an auditory person, then the “read the notebook” method will work much worse for you than the “listen to the list of words to the text” method. And you can not even think about it and long and hard, until the bitter end and feeling your own worthlessness, look into this stupid notebook and not understand why nothing is remembered!
All you need to do is figure out what works for you personally. The checklist will come to your mail if you send your email to the cat (see the cat on the side :))
Step 2. Ways to memorize words
Traditional Methods
1. Yartsev method (visuals)
In fact, of course, this method appeared long before Vitaly Viktorovich, but it was thanks to V.V. Yartsev that he appeared in my life, and this is a very cool method for lazy people like me (visuals), so in this article I start from him and call him that :)
We take a notebook. We write out in 2 (3) columns the word - translation. We give a number of synonyms \ antonyms \ examples.
From time to time we read lists, we just read, we don’t crammed anything.
I don't know how it works, but I didn't learn German from this teacher, I just read a notebook from time to time. He did not arrange dictations, he never checked us against the lists. And I still, after many years, remember a bunch of words.
Those. it turns out that you don’t strain yourself, don’t try to pour 100 words into yourself in 30 minutes, you just systematically refresh the material from time to time. But you should immediately warn that these words should be found in textbooks, articles, i.e. you must, in addition to reading the notebook, somehow activate them.
2. Card method
The second popular way. We take and cut a bunch of cards or buy square blocks of note paper. On one side we write the word, on the other - the translation. For advanced users, we indicate examples. We drive the cards in a circle, putting aside those that we know well. From time to time we repeat the past, in order to refresh.
Of the minuses - if there are a lot of words and little time, you will spend a lot of time creating the cards themselves.
As an entertainment, you can arrange them in piles of 10 pieces in different places of the apartment, from time to time stumble upon them and repeat.
Audials to this method must necessarily add speaking aloud.
Cards are great for children, this can be turned into an interesting game.
3. Method of prescribing
A classic of the genre :) You take a word and write it down many, many times. Works great for Chinese characters (I’ll tell you about how to learn characters more efficiently below). Minus - melancholy green. But the method has been tested for centuries.
4. Half page method
This is one of my favorite ways. You bend the sheet in half, write the word on one side, and the translation on the other side. You can check yourself quickly. For me, as a visual, it works well, because. I easily remember in which part of the sheet a given word was written.
Minus - you get used to a certain word order. (but that's part of the plus :)
5. Method "Interior Designer"
If you learn some specific vocabulary that surrounds you, you can make original “labels” everywhere - stick stickers with the names of objects. Also, you can stick on the monitor the most nasty words that do not want to be remembered. Plus, this method is fun :) Minus - the brain can start to ignore all these pieces of paper, and then they will hang somewhere for a long time.
Optimization methods
6. Method of grouping by grammatical features
If you have a large list of words, the worst thing you can do with it is learn it randomly.
It can and should be processed and grouped.
For example, first you write out verbs, and you write them out not in a row, but group them according to the type of endings, or you write out masculine nouns, then feminine.
Thus, since most of the words we do not apply to exceptions (you group exceptions separately), you begin to see the logic of the language and memorize words in conjunction with similar ones.
7. Meaningful grouping method
You write out and memorize the word and its synonym / antonym at once. This is true for both beginners and advanced.
So you learned the word “good”, find out right away how it will be “bad”. And if you still remember “excellent, so-so, disgusting”, then you will greatly enrich your vocabulary.
8. Method for learning the same root words (for fans)
We take words and group them around the root. Those. conditional "deed \ do \ done" and learn several single-root parts of speech at once.
Be sure to watch the lecture by Professor Argüelles on the topic of word families, he just tells you how much and what you need to know for complete happiness.
9. Etymological method: my favorite (another lazy way)
Works for those who have learned several languages :)
When you study several languages within the same language branch, you start to see similar roots. It actually comes with experience and there is no need again learn a lot of words. At a certain stage, you just already know enough :) And if I understand that this word does not categorically tell me anything, I climb into the etymological dictionary and get to the bottom of where it came from. While I do this, I remember it. (Well, it is remembered simply from the fact that it was not recognized and attracted attention)
The bonus of learning different languages is that each next one learns faster, unless, of course, you take something completely unfamiliar.
10. Chains of words
You take a list of words that you need to learn, and make up a story (even if it’s crazy) from them.
That. you learn not 30 words, but 5 sentences of 6 words each. If you approach this matter creatively, you can have a useful and exciting time :)
Methods for non-lovers of old-fashioned methods :)
11. Spaced Repetition (spaced repetitions): memory retention technique, which consists in repeating the memorized educational material at certain, constantly increasing intervals.
Those. in fact, you install an application on your phone, and there the program will automatically show you the words in the specified order and with the desired frequency. You can use both ready-made lists of words, and create your own.
Pros: capitally crashes into memory
Cons: takes a lot of time. If you have already memorized the word, it will still pop up from time to time in some programs.
My personal attitude: played, but not imbued. But it's a useful thing. I definitely recommend it to fans of games on the phone, so you will at least spend your time with benefit :)
The most popular program for this method is Anki
I personally liked Memrise more than Anki, simply because it's more fun and it has a super rating! You can also choose pre-made lists of words or create your own. If the word is categorically not remembered, you can use special funny pictures that users create using mnemonics, or you can upload your own.
Be sure to try both programs, choose the one you like more and try Spaced Repetition. In fact, a good thing and helps a lot of people.
And here you can create your own lists and generate different ways of checking words (tests, choose the right option, spell it, etc. etc.) A good way to test yourself in a playful way for fans of different tests.
"Magic" Methods
Magic methods are very fond of luring various marketers and language gurus. Usually the essence of the methods lies in the "secret techniques of the special services", which, well, objectively, are described in a pile of literature. And they ask for unhealthy sums of money.
Mnemonics is one of the most popular methods.
14. Mnemonics
The essence of the method is to come up with funny and absurd associations to a word that you can’t remember in any way.
You take the floor and come up with some kind of associative image, which should be very bright. But in this image there should be a “key” to the memorized word.
An example (stolen from the Internet :)) " grief ":
"woe to the wounded tiger, (vultures) are circling over him"
Subjectively: you need to train and get used to it before it starts to work out. But those who use it achieve great success. A good example is our 16-year-old Alenka, who is going to take HSK6 (the highest level of Chinese) next month. She uses it. She tells how she works on the language, and you can look at her notes)
Alena recommends reading the book "Einstein Walks on the Moon" by Joshua Foer.
The Memrise app has the ability to create your own "Mems" and use the associations of others. I highly recommend this option to those who cannot remember difficult words :)
15 - “stressed syllable” tactics (you can read more about it (English), the essence of the method is that you come up with an association specifically for the stressed syllable in a word)
For auditory
Rule number 1 for you - always say out loud what you are learning. If you use cards, speak up. If you are reading a list, read it out loud. Listen to the words, this is the fastest way for you to remember them! Naturally, you will have to write them down, but things will go faster than if you just read them and wrote silently.
16. Listening to words
You can put audio recordings of word lists and repeat after the announcer. Usually in good textbooks a well-read list of words is given for the lesson. This is your #1 tool.
Also, you can listen to high-quality podcasts, in which there is a detailed analysis of the dialogues. Our recommendations for podcasts in different languages can be found in the section
Important Tricks (for everyone!)
19. Learn words in context
Don't just learn the list. Here is Minilex, and it starts with the word "without". Immediately after "without" comes "safe", and then "worry" and "ticket". If you look at the list of the most frequent words in Chinese, the particle 的 will generally come first, which is a syntactic function word and has no meaning of its own!
Always learn words in context, choose examples and phrases. Work with a dictionary!
20. Memorize Dialogues
Memorizing small dialogues and texts with useful vocabulary by heart is one of the surest ways that you will remember at the right time and correctly use the word in the context you need.
Yes, it will take more effort and time, but in the long run you will have a set of ready-made structures in your head that you will be happy to use.
21. Ask someone to check on you.
Take your husband / mother / child / friend and ask them to drive you along the list. Of course, you will not be graded, but an element of control and discipline will appear.
22. Learn what is really needed.
In one of my textbooks, the word "hoe" appeared in the vocabulary before the words "short and long" appeared. Do not learn hoes and any unnecessary garbage until you learn really relevant and vital vocabulary.
How to determine relevance? There are many tutorials and lists from the 1000 Most Common Words series. First we learn frequency, then - hoes, not before. If you have not yet learned to count and do not know pronouns, it is too early for you to learn colors, no matter how much you want to. First important, then interesting, then complex and necessary for some reason.
(Future translators, this does not apply to you, you need everything. It was somehow useful for me to know the term “drawer drawer” in Chinese, although who would have thought:) If you are a translator, you must know a lot of different vocabulary.
23. Get creative!
If everything infuriates you, words do not fit into your head and you want to quickly close these lists, experiment. Drawings help someone, someone walks around the apartment and recites aloud, someone communicates with his cat. If you see something that interests you, do not be lazy to look into the dictionary. Be interested in what interests you. Don't dwell on methods that don't work. In general, be as creative as possible!
And everything will definitely work :)
Luca Lampariello
Italian polyglot. Knows 11 languages, among them - German, Russian, Polish, Northern Chinese. Lampariello became a well-known figure in the language learning community. Currently lives in Rome.
Association search is the process by which new information is linked to existing knowledge.
One piece of information can have thousands of associations with memories, emotions, experiences and individual facts. This process occurs naturally in the brain, but we can take it under conscious control.
To do this, let's return to the above-mentioned words: "gene", "cell", "synapse", "skeleton" ... If we memorize them separately, we will soon forget everything. But if we learn these words in the context of a sentence, it will be much easier for us to put them together in our mind. Think about it for 10 seconds and try to connect these four words.
You might end up with something similar: "Genes influence the development of elements as diverse as the skeleton, brain synapses, and even individual cells." All four words are now united by a common context - like pieces in a puzzle.
Approach these exercises progressively. First, try to combine groups of words that are united by a certain topic like physics or politics. Then try to build more complex associations between unrelated words. With practice, you will get better and better.
3. Repetition
More than a hundred years ago, the German physicist Ebbinghaus came to the conclusion that we forget information according to a certain pattern, which he called the "forgetting curve". We perfectly remember everything that we have recently learned. But this same information disappears from memory in a matter of days.
Ebbinghaus discovered a mechanism to combat this phenomenon.
If new information is repeated at precise intervals, it will become increasingly difficult to forget it. After a few spaced repetitions, it will be fixed in long-term memory and, most likely, will remain in the head forever.
You need to regularly review old information while working with new information.
4. Recording
The ancient Romans said: "Words fly away, the written remains." That is, in order to remember information, you need to fix it in a permanent format. As you learn new words, write them down or type on the keyboard so you can save them and come back to them later.
When you come across a new useful word or phrase while talking, watching a movie, or reading a book, write it down on your smartphone or laptop. Thus, you will be able to repeat recorded at any opportunity.
5. Application
Use what you learn in meaningful conversations. This is the essence of the last of the basic methods of effective word learning.
University of Montreal researchers Victor Boucher and Alexis Lafleur found Honor Whiteman. Repeating words aloud to another person increases memory recall. that using words in conversation is more effective in terms of memorization than saying them out loud to yourself.
In other words, the more you communicate with other people, the better your linguistic memory works and the faster the level of language proficiency grows. Therefore, always use the learned material in real conversations. This method will greatly improve your skills and give you experience in using new and long-learned words.
Suppose you have read an article on a topic that interests you. You can choose unfamiliar words from it and apply them later in a short conversation with a language partner. You can mark and learn key words, and then retell the content of the article with their help. See how well you learn the material after the conversation.
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Learning a language is impossible without memorizing new words. But besides the banal and boring cramming, there are many simple, and most importantly, effective ways to learn unfamiliar words.
First you need to figure out exactly how you best perceive information. There is a small but very important checklist for this. If you are an auditory person, then the "read the notebook" method will work much worse for you than the "listen to the list of words to the text" method. And you can not even think about it and long and hard, to the bitter end and feeling your own worthlessness, look into this stupid notebook and not understand why nothing is remembered!
Traditional Methods
- Yartsev method (visuals)
We take a notebook. We write out the word - translation in 2-3 columns. We give a number of synonyms \ antonyms \ examples. From time to time we read lists, we just read, we don’t crammed anything.
I don’t know how it works, but, for example, I didn’t crammed German, but just read a notebook from time to time. The teacher did not arrange dictations, he never checked us against the lists. And I still, after many years, remember a bunch of words.
It turns out that you do not strain, do not try to pour 100 words into yourself in 30 minutes, just systematically, from time to time you refresh the material. But you should immediately warn that these words should be found in textbooks, articles, i.e. you must, in addition to reading the notebook, somehow activate them.
- Card method
The second popular way. We take and cut a bunch of cards or buy square blocks of note paper. On one side we write the word, on the other - the translation. For advanced users, we indicate examples. We drive the cards in a circle, putting aside those that we know well. From time to time we repeat the past, in order to refresh. Of the minuses - if there are a lot of words and little time, you will spend a lot of time creating the cards themselves.
As an entertainment, you can arrange them in piles of 10 pieces in different places of the apartment, from time to time stumble upon them and repeat. Audials to this method must necessarily add speaking aloud. Cards are great for children, this can be turned into an interesting game.
- prescribing method
Classics of the genre. You take a word and write it many, many times. Works great for Chinese characters. Minus - melancholy green. But the method has been tested for centuries.
- Half page method
This is one of my favorite ways. You bend the sheet in half, write the word on one side, and the translation on the reverse side. You can check yourself quickly. For me, as a visual, it works well, because. I easily remember in which part of the sheet a given word was written. Minus - you get used to a certain word order.
- Method "Interior Designer"
If you learn some specific vocabulary that surrounds you, you can make original “labels” everywhere - stick stickers with the names of objects. You can also stick on the monitor the most nasty words that do not want to be remembered. The advantage of this method is that it is fun. Minus - the brain can begin to ignore all these pieces of paper, and then they will hang somewhere for a long time.
Optimization methods
- Grammar grouping method
If you have a large list of words, the worst thing you can do with it is to learn it haphazardly. It can and should be processed and grouped. For example, first you write out verbs, and write them out not in a row, but group them according to the type of endings, or write out masculine nouns, then feminine and separately exceptions that do not fall into these lists.
Thus, since most of the words we do not apply to exceptions, you begin to see the logic of the language and memorize words in conjunction with their like.
- Meaningful grouping method
You write out and memorize the word and its synonym/antonym right away. This is true for both beginners and advanced. So you learned the word “good”, find out right away how it will be “bad”. And if you still remember “excellent, so-so, disgusting”, then you will greatly enrich your vocabulary.
- Method for studying single-root words
We take words, group them around the root, for example, “deed / do / done”, and learn several parts of speech with the same root at once.
- Etymological method
Works well for those who have learned multiple languages. When you study several languages within the same language branch, you start to see similar roots. This actually comes with experience, and there is no need to learn a huge amount of words again. At some point, you just already know enough. And if I understand that this word does not categorically tell me anything, I climb into the etymological dictionary and get to the bottom of where it came from. While I do this, I remember it.
- chains of words
You take a list of words that you need to learn, and make up a story (even if it’s crazy) from them. So you will learn not 30 words, but 5 sentences of 6 words each. If you approach this matter creatively, you can have fun and usefully spend time.
Ways for those who do not like old-fashioned methods
- Spaced Repetition (spaced repetitions)
A technique of retention in memory, which consists in repeating the learned educational material at certain, constantly increasing intervals. In fact, you install an application on your phone, and the program will automatically show you the words in the specified order and with the desired frequency. You can use both ready-made lists of words, and create your own.
Pros: capitally crashes into memory.
Cons: takes a lot of time. If you have already memorized the word, it will still pop up from time to time in some programs.
In Memrise, you can choose from ready-made lists of words or create your own. If the word is categorically not remembered, you can use special funny pictures that users create using mnemonics, or you can upload your own. Memrise also recently added a new option - you can not only hear the voice acting of a word, but watch a video of how people pronounce these words.
A service for working on written speech for those who have already mastered the basics of language practice. The user writes the text in the language being studied, after which the native speaker of the corresponding language takes to check the written text and makes his own corrections.
"Magic" Methods
Magic methods are very fond of luring various marketers and language gurus. Usually the essence of the methods lies in the "secret techniques of the special services", which, objectively speaking, are described in a pile of literature. And they ask for unhealthy sums of money.
- mnemonics
Mnemonics is one of the most popular methods, the essence of which is to come up with funny and absurd associations to a word that you can’t remember in any way. You take the floor and come up with some kind of associative image, which should be very bright. But in this image there should be a “key” to the memorized word.
Example: "grief" ("woe") - woe to a wounded tiger, vultures are circling over him.
For auditory
Rule #1 for you: Always speak out loud what you are learning. If you use cards, speak up. If you are reading a list, read it out loud. Listen to the words, this is the fastest way for you to remember them! Naturally, you will have to write them down, but things will go faster than if you read and wrote silently.
- listening to words
You can put audio recordings of word lists and repeat after the announcer. Usually in good textbooks a well-read list of words is given for the lesson. You can also listen to high-quality podcasts in which there is a detailed analysis of the dialogues.
- Multiple repetition
A method similar to writing words in a row, rather tedious and boring, but effective - repeat out loud several times. There is an opinion that a word can be considered learned if you have used it 5 times in context. So try to give 5 different examples of the use of this word. Naturally, out loud. You can fix it by writing it down.
Methods for those who absolutely do not want to work with lists
- Reading (lots of reading)
If the level is high enough and there is no urgent need to expand the vocabulary, it is easiest to read a lot. You can mark new words and even write them out (this works best, but not everyone likes to do this). By reading, you learn to understand the meaning of the context, you are “saturated” with words, they themselves become your passive reserve. But reading usually does not help much to translate them into an asset, i.e., in order to progress in the language, you need to do something else besides reading.
- Learn what is really needed
In one of my textbooks, the word "hoe" appeared in the vocabulary before the words "short and long" appeared. Do not learn "hoes" and any unnecessary garbage until you learn really relevant and vital vocabulary.
How to determine relevance? There are many tutorials and lists from the 1000 Most Common Words series. First we learn frequency, then - "hoes", not earlier. If you have not yet learned to count and do not know pronouns, it is too early for you to learn colors, no matter how much you want to.
- Get creative with the process
If everything infuriates you, words do not fit into your head and you want to quickly close these lists, experiment. Drawings help someone, someone walks around the apartment and recites aloud, someone communicates with his cat. If you are interested in something, do not be lazy to climb into the dictionary. Study what is close to you. Don't dwell on methods that don't work.
Which we are studying, we have known for a long time, but replenishing the vocabulary and memorizing a large number of foreign words is problematic for us. Because of this, speech, although correct, is poor. What to do?
In this article, we will tell you how to quickly and easily memorize foreign words in order to replenish your vocabulary and make it richer.
foreign words
Set goals
The first step to learning a new language is setting goals. Many refer to this point superficially, but it is he who is the main one in this matter. By working on it, you can ultimately determine whether you really achieved everything you wanted. When faced with the desire or need to learn a new language, a lot of questions, problems and small details come to mind: too many words, difficult to learn, learning methods are different.
When you set a goal, work through what you want to achieve in the end, you focus on narrower areas. Research shows that people who work on goal setting are more likely to succeed than people who just start teaching without knowing what they need to end up with. Use the following tips to successfully set a goal and achieve it:
Focus on a specific result. Work out the details and determine what exactly you want to learn, not how much time you want to spend on it. For example, say to yourself: "This week I want to learn 30 English words related to shopping."
Set short term goals. Of course, having a serious goal is good, but if it is too broad and requires a huge amount of time, it will not be enough to motivate you to work every day. Break down your big goal into smaller ones, and successfully complete small weekly or monthly tasks.
Challenge yourself. Goals are always achieved much faster if they force you to put in the effort. The main thing is that you do not feel burdened and pressured. This method can work if you set yourself the same goal, but with different possible outcomes. For example, say: "I will learn 30-50 English words this week." The smallest number allows you to start working, realizing that the goal is not so difficult to achieve. The highest number will force you to put in the effort to show the best result.
Write down your goals. This obvious method really works, because organizing on paper allows you to fully focus on what is written. In fact, you can use some other means for this: notes on the phone, notes on the refrigerator, a marker on the wall, or a finger on the mirror.
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The most common foreign words
Schedule
Have you ever wondered how musicians memorize so many songs and remember them for a long time? It's all about daily practice, because for this they rehearse again and again. This process takes time, but is rewarded later.
When learning new words, you may think that it takes too much time, and that what you already know is enough for you. However, you can speak beautifully, correctly and interestingly only when you enrich your vocabulary. In fact, it doesn't take much time. Just make a schedule and you'll see.
If you are a person who prefers to get up early, study the words for half an hour in the morning. Teach them while choosing clothes, washing and dressing while making tea. In addition, you can treat yourself to small prizes for a job well done - allow yourself a new thing or a trip to a restaurant, for example, after a week of work with new words. Remember that this will only work if you really study the words every day.
Group words by topic
Many people, replenishing their vocabulary, make one common mistake - they begin to learn all the words in a row. In order to make it easier to memorize foreign words, you should not learn everything just by remembering and translating them. Create a list of words grouped by topic or category. For example, write down all the words for colors, food, animals, verbs of motion, and others.
This method allows you to divide the entire huge vocabulary into small parts that are much easier to learn. In addition, associations with a topic will help you remember both the words themselves and the area in which they are used. Small lists of words will motivate you to study them, because you will not feel overwhelmed or pressured, but the result will not be long in coming.
Look for Opportunities
"Learn a word" and "memorize" are completely different concepts. A person who truly learns new words always knows how and in what situation they need to be applied, otherwise all efforts lose their meaning. Otherwise, they are simply erased from memory, and you have to start over.
In order for the learned word to firmly settle in your memory, use it as often as possible. If the word is rare or unusual, find out when it is appropriate to use it. If the word is completely ordinary and the situation allows, start a topic that would require the use of learned words. For example, if you are currently looking at a list of animals that live in the forest, get your interlocutor interested and tell him some amazing facts about wildlife.
How to memorize foreign words
Video and audio
If you really want to enrich your vocabulary, but notice that you have a poor visual memory, and you are tired of constantly repeating words aloud, use various educational videos and audio recordings with the pronunciation of words. This will help you relax, go about your business, while listening to someone repeat words that are new to you.
You can turn them on as a background to your daily activities and listen while getting ready for work or taking a bath. Thus, you will not only memorize words, but also know how to pronounce them correctly - this is a very important point in expanding the vocabulary and when communicating with native speakers.
own words
In order to understand which words are most often used in everyday life, and which are almost never used, highlight the most popular in your speech and the speech of your loved ones. If you notice that you often use a word, or if it often appears in the speech of your friends, write it down.
Over time, you will have a list of words that you can translate and learn, because not always the words that you are given to study in old books and textbooks are often used in everyday life. They are important for general development, but you should first find out how often and in what situations native speakers use them - otherwise you may be embarrassed or simply not understood.
Synonyms and antonyms
As in Russian, many foreign words have synonyms and antonyms. This item will help you enrich your vocabulary and make your speech richer and more beautiful, because using the same word in a sentence several times in a row will not add beauty to it.
If you find a word that you often use, try to find a replacement for it. Learn a few synonyms - you'll know what it means and the associations will do the trick. You do not have to search and memorize the area in which this word is used for a long time, because synonyms have the same meaning.
Modern teaching methods offer to learn a language as quickly as possible, where the main indicator of the quality of knowledge is the richness of vocabulary. Each person has his own type of thinking and memory. Some just need to look at a new word to memorize it, others have to stubbornly sit and memorize it, as once in childhood - the multiplication table.
Method of interaction of sensations
A useful method that is extremely useful to use in parallel with other memorization techniques. Its essence boils down to the fact that each foreign concept should not just be memorized, but felt, imagining that it is from the native language. This rule will allow you to communicate as freely as possible in a foreign language and “not go into your pocket for a word”, thinking about the answer for a long time. Thanks to this method, the necessary associations themselves will pop up in the head at the right time.Example: when memorizing the English cup, you need to imagine a cup and repeat this word to yourself in a foreign language.
By the way, if the meaning itself flies out of your head, cup can be remembered as an image: a cup into which water is dripping from a tap with the sound "drip". Thus, the method of associations will help to remember the word, and the method of interaction will fix it in the subconscious.
Storytelling
This memorization method suggests composing a short story in order to better consolidate. The main rule here is not to strain too much imagining - the story may be simple and ridiculous, but vivid and memorable.For example, almost ("almost") can be represented as follows: once upon a time there was a girl Alla, who once wanted to throw herself off the bridge, but a passer-by prevented her, grabbing her leg. So she almost succeeded in accomplishing her plan. Before you is an absurd story that will definitely not let you forget a word or its meaning. If you repeat the story several times at different times to yourself, it will be easy to remember. This method is suitable for words to which it is not possible to find a simple association.
Phonetic association method
It is known that in all languages of the world there are words or their parts that coincide in sound. From the point of view of the method of phonetic associations, memorization of words with different meanings can be made convenient. To remember a word that is similar in meaning to another, it is enough to link these two meanings together. This technique will help you remember the most complex values in the shortest possible time, the main thing is to repeat associations from time to time. And, of course, write down what you have learned in a special dictionary.For example, you need to remember the English plumber (plumber, plumber). You need to imagine a plumber, and imagine it very brightly - in his blue overalls, with a yellow helmet. The word plumber, upon some consideration, may seem like a Russian "plombir". Next, you should very vividly imagine a plumber who greedily eats a melted ice cream flowing through his hands. Ready! A vivid association is chosen and will certainly not fly out of memory.
Stickers
Pasting stickers around the surrounding space will help you better immerse yourself in the language environment and get used to the language more quickly.This is an interesting and unusual way for creative people whose family will not mind if all the items in the house are pasted over with stickers with strange inscriptions. This method is based on the pattern that most people on earth are visuals who remember visual information better.
Working with hearing
As it has recently become clear from the practice of English-Russian schools, for some reason the biggest problem for Russian-speaking students is the perception of foreign speech by ear.
One of the methods to eliminate this feature is the independent dictation of the studied text or individual words on the recorder and their subsequent listening. In this case, special attention should be paid to the correct pronunciation. If it is not clear how a word is pronounced, refer to connoisseurs and competent sources, because the distortion of one sound can change the meaning of the entire phrase.
Smart cards
The method suggests using brainstorming. First you need to take a generalized concept - for example, fruits - and list all the fruits in this language, writing them out. The more time you can spend on one such enumeration, the better these words will be deposited in your head.
All “sorted” concepts should be written out and saved in order to review in a free minute, repeating. This is a good way to translate several concepts at once into an active vocabulary.
Mobile applications
Easy way to repeat and learn words - applications for mobile phone, smartphone or tablet. An important advantage is that applications can be used at any convenient time: on the road or during a break at work.
Google Translator- a good dictionary that knows 90 languages. To work with it, you need to enter a word in a foreign language. The translator will give several translation options that you can listen to if you wish. All translated materials can be saved and synchronized with other gadgets.
Yandex translate- a handy dictionary from Yandex developers. The application allows you to translate individual words, phrases, sentences and texts online and offline. Offline mode means offline work with six languages, and using the Internet, more than 90 languages will be available. Everything is free.
Memrise– will help to learn a foreign word both online and offline. The mobile application allows you to learn not only new words, but also various terms, capitals. There are free and paid versions.
Find an accomplice
Find a friend who has studied or is studying the same language and start practicing learning with him. A friend who can correct the pronunciation, the construction of phrases is almost a personal tutor.If there are none among your friends, you can find special communities on the Internet that practice a similar method of learning a language. Even if informal meetings of those wishing to speak a foreign language do not take place in your city, the Internet will help to expand the boundaries and, for example, via Skype. Learning a language in this lively way is not only extremely rewarding, but also fun!
Habit building is the key to ensuring that precious knowledge doesn't get lost and stays in the place it was put in years ago. There are several important points that should be observed in order to learn the language in the most effective way.
mother of learning
Replenishing your vocabulary, like a piggy bank - with coins, you should not forget that if you do not practice repeating the language, words are forgotten over time. It's one thing to remember, another thing to hold in your head for a long time. For this, there are simple but mandatory rules that everyone who wants to memorize new words needs to follow: repeat them an hour later, before going to bed and the next morning, and flip through your personal dictionary at least once a month.
Regularity and focus
Practice shows that the most effective method of learning foreign languages is regularity. You should not set yourself the “learn 100 in a day” setting - it’s better to gradually, every day, get acquainted with 10 new foreign concepts and memorize them reliably. You should not spray on several languages at the same time, especially if you need knowledge in perfection. Constantly switching to another language is not prohibited, but remember that this will reduce the effectiveness of classes.
